Anniversaries

26th July 1945 (67 Years)

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

26th July 1952 (60 Years)

María Eva Duarte de Perón, second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina, died.

27th July 1214 (798 Years)

Battle of Bouvines during the Angevin-Flanders War.

27th July 1768 (244 Years)

Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter, was born.

27th July 1768 (244 Years)

Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, was born.

27th July 1867 (145 Years)

On Coney Island, Charles Feltman allegedly invents the hot dog.

27th July 1946 (66 Years)

Gertrude Stein, American modernist and avant-garde author, died.

28th July 1876 (136 Years)

Beatrix Potter, English writer of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", is born.

28th July 1887 (125 Years)

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor, was born.

28th July 1914 (98 Years)

The start of World War I.

29th July 1567 (445 Years)

James VI, age one, is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

29th July 1890 (122 Years)

Vincent van Gogh, famous Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, died.

29th July 1987 (25 Years)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France Francois Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel: Eurotunnel.

30th July 1763 (249 Years)

Samuel Rogers, English poet, is born.

30th July 1818 (194 Years)

Emily Brontë, English author and poet, was born.

30th July 1863 (149 Years)

Henry Ford, American indulstrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company, was born.

30th July 1948 (64 Years)

Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor, was born.

30th July 1966 (46 Years)

At Wembley Stadium, England beats West Germany 4-2 and wins the 8th World Cup.

30th July 1996 (16 Years)

Claudette Colbert, French-American actress and singer, died.

30th July 2007 (5 Years)

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, died.

31st July 1917 (95 Years)

WWI: the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) in Flanders begins.

1st August 1714 (298 Years)

Richard Wilson, the Welsh artist considered by many to be the father of British landscape painting, is born.

1st August 1833 (179 Years)

The Slavery Abolition Act was passed by the British Parliament.

1st August 1840 (172 Years)

Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

1st August 1870 (142 Years)

Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway opened in London.

1st August 1936 (76 Years)

Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer who impacted fashion from the 1960s to the present day, is born.

1st August 1987 (25 Years)

Pola Negri, Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her femme fatale roles, died.

2nd August 1667 (345 Years)

Francesco Borromini, Italian architect born in today's Ticino (CH) and a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture, died.

2nd August 1788 (224 Years)

Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape painter, died.

2nd August 1922 (90 Years)

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who patented the first practical telephone. died.

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